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Bio-Mimicking Rotary Nanomotors Bio-mimicking rotary nanomotors Anatoly Smirnova,b, Lev Mourokhc*, Sergei Savel’eva,d, Franco Noria,b aAdvanced Science Institute, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan; bCenter for Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040, USA; cDepartment of Physics, Queens College, The City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367, USA; dDepartment of Physics, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK ABSTRACT We propose a simple design of a rotary nanomotor comprised of three quantum dots attached to the rotating ring (rotor) in the presence of an in-plane dc electric field. The quantum dots (sites) can be coupled to or decoupled from source and drain carrier reservoirs, depending on the relative positions of the leads and the dots. We derive equations for the site populations and solve these equations numerically jointly with the Langevin-type equation for the rotational angle. It is shown that the synchronous loading and unloading of the sites results in unidirectional rotation of the nanomotor. The corresponding particle current, torque, and energy conversion efficiency are determined. Our studies are applicable both to biologically-inspired rotary nanomotors, the F0 motor of ATP synthase and the bacterial flagellar motor, which use protons as carriers, and to novel artificial semiconductor systems using electrons. The efficiency of this semiconductor analog of the rotary biomotors is up to 85% at room temperature. Keywords: nanomotor, rotary motors, electron tunneling, rate equations 1. INTRODUCTION Biological rotary motors provide remarkable examples of how electrochemical energy can be efficiently converted into mechanical motion [1, 2]. Two of the most important representatives of this family, the F0 motor of ATP (adenosine triphosphate) synthase and the bacterial flagellar motor, are powered by H+ or Na+ ions, which flow down the electrochemical gradient across the mitochondrial or cell membranes, thereby generating a torque [3-6]. Both of these rotary motors have similar components: (i) a stator, tightly attached to the membrane, and (ii) a ring-shaped rotor, which can freely rotate around its axis. It is assumed [3-5] that the rotor has several (10 to 14) proton-binding sites. In the presence of an external electric field (which might be created by the charges stored in the stator), the population of these sites by charged particles (protons) can lead to a rotational torque. In this paper we propose a simple model of an electronic device based on the same principles. In some sense, the structure of such artificial system can be even simpler than that of the original biological one (see Fig. 1). Three quantum dots (mimicking protonable sites) can be attached (or embedded) to the rotating rings. Electron states in these dots are tunnel-coupled to two reservoirs (source and drain) allowing the population and depopulation of the dots. We show below that the second source reservoir allows us to alternate the direction of rotation. This electronic counterpart of biological motors can be placed in an external electric field (in particular, inside a capacitor) thereby inducing a torque. We examine the dynamics of this bio-mimicking nanomotor using methods of condensed matter physics which are natural for this case and have been successful for the modeling of real biological motors. In our previous publications [7,8], we used them to describe the loading/unloading of protonable sites in the F0 motor of ATP-sinthase. (Afterwards, the same idea was used for the electron-tunneling-powered rotation of the “blade-nanotube” structure [9].) In the present paper, our Hamiltonian includes the mechanical part describing the nanomotor rotation with the kinetic term and heat bath term responsible for friction; transfer Hamiltonian for electron tunneling between reservoirs and the dots; inter-dot * [email protected]; phone 1 718 997-4893; fax 1 718 997-3349 Nanotechnology IV, edited by Achim Wixforth, Axel Lorke, Friedrich C. Simmel, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7364, 73640D · © 2009 SPIE · CCC code: 0277-786X/09/$18 · doi: 10.1117/12.821567 Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7364 73640D-1 Coulomb interaction; and coupling of the electrons to an external electric field. We introduce possible electronic states in the system and derive a master equation for their density matrix. This equation is coupled to the Langevin equation for the rotating angle. A numerical solution of these equations allows us to describe the rotation of the nanomotor, determine the time evolution of the dot populations and induced torque, as well as obtain the dependencies of the time-averaged torque and electron particle current on the source-drain voltage, in-plane electric field, and temperature. Of special interest is the system behavior in the presence of an external torque. We show that if this torque is large enough, the nanomotor can work in the reverse regime, pumping electrons against the applied voltage. 2. MODEL The system under consideration here consists of three equally-spaced quantum dots A, B, and C attached to the rotating ring (rotor) in the presence of a constant y-directed electric field (Fig.1). The dots can be coupled to two electron sources S1 and S2 as well as to the electron drain D. The source leads S1 and S2 can be connected (or disconnected) at will to the electron reservoir with an electrochemical potential μS, whereas the drain is connected to the reservoir with the electrochemical potential μD smaller than μS. We show below that the activation of the lead S1 results in a clockwise motion of the rotor, whereas a connection of the S2-lead (and disconnection of the S1-lead) generates a counterclockwise rotation. At each instant of time only one source lead is connected to the reservoir. Fig. 1. Schematics of the nanomotor. With S1-lead connected to the circuit, the rotor experiences the clockwise rotation. The Hamiltonian of the system has the form: p2 + , (1) H = 2 −U 0 ∑ nσ cos()φ +φσ + ∑ Eσ nσ + ∑ Ekα ckα ckα + ∑Uσσ 'nσ nσ ' + H tun + HQ 2Mr0 σ σ k ,α σ ,σ ' Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7364 73640D-2 where φ is the angle of rotation, p = −ih(∂/∂φ) is the operator of angular momentum of the rotator with radius r0 and effective mass M. We take into account here the effects of a constant y-directed external electric field, with a potential energy profile U(φ) = − U0 cos φ, on the electrons localized in the three sites σ = A,B,C with positions, characterized by the angles φA, φB, φC, respectively. + The operators aσ and aσ describe the creation and annihilation of an electron on the site (dot) σ with a population nσ = + + aσ aσ , whereas the operators ckα and ckα are related to the k-state of the electron in the source and drain reservoirs (leads) with energy Ekα (α = S1, S2, D). The Coulomb repulsion between electrons is given by the potentials Uσσ’. The tunneling coupling between dots and leads is given by the Hamiltonian Htun = ∑Tkα ckα aσ wασ (φ) + h.c., (2) k,α ,σ where the tunneling amplitudes Tkα are multiplied by the factor ⎡ 2r0 ⎤ wασ (φ) = exp⎢− 1− cos(φ +φσ −φα )⎥ , (3) ⎣ λ ⎦ which reflects an exponential dependence of the tunneling rate on the distance between the σ-dot and the α-lead with a characteristic spatial scale λ. To take into account the influence of the classical dissipative environment {Q} with the Hamiltonian HBath on the rotational degrees of freedom, we include the term HQ = − r0 φ Q + HBath in Eq. (1). Correspondingly, the nanorotator experiences Brownian motion by the Langevin equation in the overdamped regime ζφ& +U0 ∑nσ sin(φ +φσ ) = ξ + Νext , (4) σ 2 where ζ =4πηr0 h is the drag coefficient, Νext is the external torque acting on the nanomotor, η is the viscosity, h is the nanomotor height, and the Gaussian fluctuation source ξ is characterized by the correlation function: <ξ(t)ξ(t′)> = 2ζTδ(t−t′). To describe the process of loading and unloading of proton-binding sites A, B, and C, we introduce the electron vacuum state |1> = |vacuum>, jointly with seven additional states, + |2> = aA |1>, + |3> = aB |1>, + + |4> = aA aB |1>, + |5> = aC |1>, + + |6> = aA aC |1>, + + |7> = aB aC |1>, + + + |8> = aA aB aC |1>. Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7364 73640D-3 Each of the electron operators can be expressed in terms of the operators ρμν = |μ><ν| (μ,ν = 1, .., 8). The populations of the dots, nσ , are expressed in terms of the diagonal operators ρμ ≡ ρμμ , as: nA = ρ2+ρ4+ρ6+ρ8, nB = ρ3+ρ4+ρ7+ρ8, nC = ρ5+ρ6+ρ7+ρ8. Thus, for the electrons localized on the rotor sites A, B, C we obtain the Hamiltonian 8 HABC = ε |μ><μ|, ∑μ=1 μ with an energy spectrum depending on the local value of the rotor angle φ: ε1 = 0, ε2 = EA −U0 cos(φ+φA), ε3 = EB −U0 cos(φ+φB), ε4 = ε2+ε3, ε5 = EC −U0 cos(φ+φC), ε6 = ε2+ε5, ε7 = ε3+ε5, ε8 = ε2+ε3+ε5. We assume here that the characteristic time, γ−1, of electron tunneling to and out of the dots is much shorter than the time scale of the rotary angle, <φ& >, and that the noise produced by the electron tunneling between the dots and the source and drain contacts has much less effect on the mechanical motion of the rotor than the noise ξ generated by the bath {Q}. Accordingly, we can average the stochastic Eq. (4) over fluctuations of the electron reservoirs without averaging over the fluctuations of the mechanical heat bath. The partially averaged proton population nσ involved in Eq.
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